Hi everyone. I’m very new to this and could do with a bit of help as I feel there’s a lot to learn and I want to be able to help myself. Earlier this year I realised I had a swelling on the front of my neck. I was put on the cancer pathway and following an ultrasound was told it was a benign cyst but I also had a suspicious nodule on the other side of my thyroid. No cancer showed in the biopsy but they couldn’t be sure what it was and because of the size of the cyst I decided to opt for a total thyroidectomy. It was done really quickly, June 13th, and I went straight onto 125mcg levothyroxine. I haven’t had results for the nodule yet.
Both times I’ve received two different brands of tablets for my prescription, 100mcg of one and 25mg of another, eg crescent and teva. Does this matter?
My first blood test to check if I’m on the right dose of levothyroxine is Thursday at 9.40 am. From reading on here I think I should not take my tablets before my blood test. Have I got that right?
Thank you for reading xx
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helvella's medicines documents (UK and Rest of the World) can be found here:
helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines
helvella has created, and tries to maintain, documents containing details of all thyroid hormone medicines in the UK and, in less detail, many others around the world. There is now a specific world desiccated thyroid document.
I highly recommend viewing on a computer screen, or a decent sized tablet, rather than a phone. Even I find it less than satisfactory trying to view them on my phone.
helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines - UK
The UK document contains up-to-date versions of the Summary Matrixes for levothyroxine tablets, oral solutions and also liothyronine available in the UK. Includes injectables and descriptions of tablet markings which allow identification. Latest updates include all declared ingredients for all UK products and links to Patient Information Leaflets, etc. PLUS how to write prescriptions in Appendix F.
Contains details of all known desiccated thyroid products including information about several products not considered to be Natural Desiccated Thyroid (NDT/Desiccated Thyroid Extract/DTE).
Contains details of all levothyroxine, liothyronine and combination products - excluding desiccated thyroid products. Details available vary by country and manufacturer.
The link below takes you to a blog page which has direct links to the documents from Dropbox and QR codes to make it easy to access from phones. You will have to scroll down or up to find the link to the document you want.
Thank you, I’ll have a read and try to take it all in! Also, will the health centre just test for the TSH level? Would I be best to do my own test for vitamins etc? I only had one thyroid blood test at the beginning of all this and haven’t really had a chance to get my head around everything I’ll need to know.
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